Fred F. Finklehoffe

Screenwriter

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Also Known As

Fred Finklehoffe

Birth Place

Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Born

February 16, 1910

Died

October 05, 1977

Filmography

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The Stooge (1953)

The Stooge (1953)

From a story by

At War with the Army (1951)

Written for Screen by

Words and Music (1948)

The Egg and I (1947)

Written for Screen by

Original story and Screenplay

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Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Grinding Coffee

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) But Not For Me

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Ella Logan

Wife

Singer, actor. Married on September 23, 1942; divorced in 1954.

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

The Stooge (1953)

The Stooge (1953)

From a story by

At War with the Army (1951)

Written for Screen by

Words and Music (1948)

The Egg and I (1947)

Written for Screen by

Original story and Screenplay

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Girl Crazy (1943)

Best Foot Forward (1943)

Babes on Broadway (1942)

Babes on Broadway (1942)

For Me and My Gal (1942)

Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)

Original Screenplay

Strike Up the Band (1940)

Original Screenplay

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

Contract Writer

Producer (Feature Film)

At War with the Army (1951)

The Egg and I (1947)

Music (Feature Film)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

At War with the Army (1951)

Life Events

Videos

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Grinding Coffee Their first meeting in their last co-starring MGM Musical, frisky Mickey Rooney as east-coast publishing-heir playboy Danny, banished to college out west, meets taller and prettier Judy Garland, whom we’ll learn is the college post-mistress Ginger, in the all-Gershwin full-tilt Freed Unit production, Girl Crazy, 1943.

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) But Not For Me Feeling a fairly complex disappointment for having become vested in the college beauty pageant, post-mistress Ginger (Judy Garland) finds another George & Ira Gershwin tune from the original Broadway hit, good guy Rags (Ragland) attempting consolation, in MGM's Girl Crazy, 1943, also starring Mickey Rooney.

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Could You Use Me? One of only a couple numbers they perform together in their last MGM co-starring vehicle, it’s fallen to pretty college post-mistress Ginger (Judy Garland) to take departing playboy-heir student to the train to go home, his only regret in leaving her behind, with a George & Ira Gershwin tune, in Girl Crazy, 1943.

Girl Crazy (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Treat Me Rough With Tommy Dorsey and orchestra, George and Ira Gershwin's Treat Me Rough, first by June Allyson as a specialty, then by youthful playboy Danny (Mickey Rooney), about to be sent to college out west, in the lavish MGM Freed Unit musical Girl Crazy, 1943, also starring Judy Garland.

Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Real Christmas Spirit Frolicking with snowmen, Christmas 1903, brother Lon (Henry H. Daniels Jr.) put out with Esther, Tootie and Rose (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Lucille Bremer) over social challenges until family maid Katie (Marjorie Main) finds a solution, in Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me In St. Louis, 1944.

Stooge, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Cut You Throat Jerry Lewis is wannabe singer Ted, Percy Helton his fed-up agent Sam, Dean Martin as more-successful singer Bill, who’s been convinced he needs to hire a “stooge” to make him look good, and Polly Bergen is Dean’s frustrated wife, the first meeting of the principals, in The Stooge, 1952.

Stooge, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) I Got Friends On The Force! The first scene for Jerry Lewis as would-be entertainer Ted, just after we’ve learned that his agent is desperate to unload him, in a comic confrontation with the owner (Donald MacBride) of a diner, in the fifth feature in which Jerry and Dean Martin were top-billed, The Stooge, 1952.

Stooge, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) See You In Church The opening to the the fifth Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis vehicle introduces only Dean, as singer Bill, on the phone with his bride-to-be Mary (Polly Bergen) herself a performer, with just a piece of a song by Harry Revel and mack Gordon, in The Stooge, 1952.

Stooge, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Are You For Real? Failed singer Ted (Jerry Lewis) at home with his mom (Frances Bavier) explaining how badly his performance with balladeer Bill (Dean Martin) went earlier that day, when he turns up, explaining that it was meant to go that way, in Paramount’s The Stooge, 1952.

Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Lord And Master Trouble at dinnertime, Mother (Mary Astor) presides, Tootie (Margaret O’Brien) throws bombs, sisters (Judy Garland, Lucille Bremer) attempt composure, grandpa (Harry Davenport) wisecracks then father (Leon Ames) arrives, tangling with maid Katie (Marjorie Main), in Meet Me In St. Louis, 1944.

At War With The Army -- (Movie Clip) Take A Poke At Him! Private Korwin (Jerry Lewis) aping nemesis McVey (Mike Kellin), getting advice from Shaugnessy (Frank Hyers), then caught being un-military by frustrated pal Sergeant Puccinelli (Dean Martin), in At War With The Army, 1951.

At War With The Army -- (Movie Clip) Tonda Wonda Hoy Just a piece of a tune by Private Korwin (Jerry Lewis) before his slicker songwriting partner Sergeant Puccinelli (Dean Martin) steps in with Tonda Wonda Hoy, by Mack David and Jerry Livingston, in At War With The Army, 1951.

Companions

Ella Logan

Wife

Singer, actor. Married on September 23, 1942; divorced in 1954.

Bibliography

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